CE Software in partnership with Rae Technology; collaboration will deliver workgroup personal information management products.WEST DES MOINES West Des Moines (də moin`), city (1990 pop. 31,702), Polk co., S central Iowa, a growing suburb W of Des Moines; inc. 1893 as Valley Junction, renamed 1938. Products manufactured there include cement, metal items, and pumps. , Iowa--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1995--CE Software and Rae Technology Rae Technology was a software company founded as a spin-off from Apple Computer in 1992. Rae Technology was best known for its Personal Information Manager Rae Assist and for being the predecessor of NetObjects, Inc.. Monday announced that the companies will work jointly to bring to market a personal information manager (PIM (1) (Protocol Independent Multicast) A multicast routing protocol endorsed by the IETF. Used in conjunction with an existing unicast routing protocol, it comes in two flavors: Dense Mode (PIM-DM) is used when recipients in the target group are in a concentrated ) that supports QuickMail, the number one selling electronic mail solution for the Macintosh. Called DayAssist, the product will be sold by CE Software and will be available later this quarter. Leveraging the features of Rae Technology's popular Rae Assist Rae Assist was a software developed and distributed by Rae Technology from 1993 to 1995. Rae Assist (or shortly "Assist") was one of the first Personal Information Managers (PIM) and available for Apple Macintosh. PIM, DayAssist will be tailored to integrate fully with QuickMail. With DayAssist, QuickMail users will be able to manage their business and personal contacts, schedules, projects, to do notes and files all in one place. Users can send DayAssist information to each other directly via built-in mail support. For example, a user will be able to send information on a person, meeting, task or project directly to another user. DayAssist integrates seamlessly with QuickMail, requiring no changes to a user's QuickMail system or any other special configurations to support the sharing of data. "With this agreement, CE Software and Rae Technology become workgroup personal information manager partners," said Ford Goodman, president and chief executive officer of CE Software. "We will also explore ways in which we can collaborate on products and technologies that provide even more group functionality to network users." CE Software and Rae Technology will investigate future collaboration that may include development of cross-platform group information products based on object technology. The companies will also evaluate ways to integrate DayAssist with CE Software's TeamVision group-enabling technology. TeamVision provides interoperability between workgroup applications and existing database technologies and messaging systems. "Adding QuickMail to Rae Assist validates Rae's strategy of rapid development of information applications based on our reusable object architecture," said Samir Arora Samir Arora, born November 5 1965, is best known for being the founder, CEO and Chairman of the web design pioneering company NetObjects, Inc. from 1995 - 2001, and being the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of Glam Media, Inc. since 2003. , president and chief executive officer of Rae Technology. "In the last two quarters Rae has shipped over 200,000 copies of Assist products." DayAssist In addition to QuickMail integration, DayAssist offers several new features. These include a Link-to-File capability which allows users to link a file alias to any object within DayAssist and Data Reconcile which allows data from one DayAssist user to be exchanged with that of another. DayAssist lets users link and categorize information or view it on their own. An Assistant feature helps them find, create and link information. In addition, DayAssist includes banners for events in month view. "Together DayAssist and QuickMail will be a powerful product combination for anyone that needs to organize information based on projects, tasks, or to dos, and then must communicate that information with others," said CE Software's Goodman. "DayAssist's Electronic Binder lets users organize data in binder sections in ways that are meaningful to them rather than logical to a computer application or folder scheme." DayAssist will be available in first quarter 1995. The product will be sold direct through CE Software and its reseller channels. Rae Technology Inc. Rae Technology provides commercial products and custom solutions to help people access, manage and communicate information. Rae's products include Rae Assist, Student Assist, and Rae Assist for Performa. Rae has also developed solutions for sales automation Sales Automation - Sales Force Automation , project management and database publishing Using desktop publishing to produce reports of database contents. See desktop publishing. . Clients include Pacific Bell, Chevron, Syntex Laboratories and other Fortune 1000 companies. Rae's products and solutions are built on an object framework -- code-named Solo -- for rapidly creating information applications. For further information, contact Rae Technology at 19672 Stevens Creek Stevens Creek is a creek in Santa Clara County, California. The creek flows from the Santa Cruz Mountains into Stevens Creek Reservoir. It continues through Cupertino, Los Altos, and Mountain View before emptying into the San Francisco Bay. Blvd., Cupertino, Calif. 95014. Phone 408/725-2850. Fax: 408/725-2855. CE Software Inc. Established in 1981, CE Software Inc., a subsidiary of CE Software Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ/NMS: CESH) develops and markets electronic mail, scheduling and workgroup applications software for Windows/DOS and Macintosh environments. With over 2.8 million users worldwide, CE Software is a leading provider of LAN-based software applications for workgroups. For more information contact CE Software Inc., 1801 Industrial Circle, West Des Moines, Iowa West Des Moines is a city in Polk, Dallas, and Warren counties in the U.S. state of Iowa. As of the 2000 census, the city population was 46,403; a special census taken in the spring of 2005 counted 51,744 residents. 50265. Phone: 800/523-7638 inside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Outside the United States call 515/221-1801. CONTACT: CE Software Inc. 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